Alabama Kid Gets Decision Richards Out With Injured Eye
SYDNEY, Monday.—The British Empire middleweight champion, Ron Richards, was forced to retire at the end of the eighth round of his…
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Accidents, 1942
659 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 33
Yesterday's Accidents
Joseph Porter 40 of Barnsley suffered abrasions to the left foot when a motor-cycle he was riding and a sulky collided yesterday. Lake…
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A man was fatally injured when struck by a car this morning at the corner of Morehead and Howe streets. Lambton…
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When struck by a fall of coal at Abermain No.3 Colliery to-day Henry Smith. 54, a miner, of Lieht-foot-street. Ccssnock. suffered…
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GOSFORD. — Missing from his home at Booker Bay, Woy Woy. since last night, John Albert Boom, 17. was found floating in…
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Richard Evan Jones 12, of North-cote-street. Kurri Kurri was admitted to Kurri Kurri Hospital with a fracture of the right wrist and…
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Bertram George Counsell, 19, of Cardiff, was fatally injured at the corner of Moorehead and Howe Streets, Lambton, yesterday. He…
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Barry Hall, 11, of Morgan-street, Merewether, had a splinter about five inches long embedded in his thigh about 8.30 o'cock last night, when the bicycle he…
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GOSFORD, Wednesday.—The body of John Albert Boorm, 17, who resided with his parents at Booker Bay. Woy Way, was found floating…
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Two young sisters were injured — one critically — in an accident at the corner of Albert and Railway Streets, Wickham, this…
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Thomas Cook, 20, of Ferrodale, Raymond Terrace, was cutting timber yesterday when the axe slipped and badly cut his thigh. Newcastle…
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Mrs. J. O. Christianson, of Elizabeth-street, Tighle's Hill, has been notified that her son, Olaf. Rupert Christianson, 54, and her grandson,…
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Audrev Geary, 11, of Throsby-street, Wickham, was critically injured in a collision between a bicycle and a lorry at the corner of Albert…
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SYDNEY: Hundreds of people disregarded N.E.S. instructions by rushing into the streets when air-raid sirens sounded accidentally…
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SYDNEY. — Kevil Kelaher. Manly Rugby Union first grade winger, and brother of the international, J.D. ("Jockey") Kelaher, has been reported killed in an…
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SYDNEY: Leading artist of the Tivoli vaudeville show. Lea Sonia. 30, brilliant female impersonator, was killed instantly to-day when…
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When knocked down by a trolley to-day at Abermnin No. 2 Colliery, Harry Anderson, miner, of Rawson Street, Aberdare. had…
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MELBOURNE: When H. Mornement, who was to be Duomint's rider In the Chelsea Handicap was being leased up he dislocated his…
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When a car overturned near Cooranbong Henry Schipp, 51, of Elcho-street. Hamilton, suffered a fractured left elbow and Injuries to his left shoulder…
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MELBOURNE.—The Mentone Hurdle was a chanter of accidents. When Pine Peak was running third he fell at the hurdle…
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